Link to an article by Miya Tokumitsu:
“Why We Should Listen to Frank Lloyd Wright”
Basically, an endorsement of Thorstein Veblen‘s economics.
Bonus link: “The FBI vs. Frank Lloyd Wright”
Tag: Economics
Michel Husson & Stephanie Treillet – Liberation Through Vacation
Link to a translation of an article by Michel Husson & Stephanie Treillet:
Lawrence S. Wittner – Corporate Welfare Fails to Deliver the Jobs
Link to an article by Lawrence S. Wittner:
“Corporate Welfare Fails to Deliver the Jobs: The Sad Case of Start-Up NY”
Bonus links: “How Business ‘Partnerships’ Flopped at America’s Largest University” and “Wisconsin’s $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle” and “The HQ2 Scam: How Amazon Used a Bidding War to Scrape Cities’ Data” and “‘Winners’ in Amazon Sweepstakes Sure to Be the Losers” and “Give Money to Workers, Not Billionaires”
Noam Chomsky – U.S. Power and the Godfather Principle
Link to an interview with Noam Chomsky:
Juan Cruz Ferre – Argentina: Workers’ Management as a Response to the Crisis
Link to an article by Juan Cruz Ferre:
“Argentina: Workers’ Management as a Response to the Crisis”
Ellen Brown – Derailing Amtrak
Link to an article by Ellen Brown:
“Derailing Amtrak: Tracking the Latest Disaster in the Infrastructure Crisis”
Vicenç Navarro – How Should Economics Be Taught?
Link to an interview with Vicenç Navarro:
“How Should Economics Be Taught? A Conversation With Vicenç Navarro”
Carl Magnes – Money Before Music
Link to an article by Carl Magnes:
Nomi Prins – The Clintons and Their Banker Friends
Link to an article by Nomi Prins:
“The Clintons and Their Banker Friends: The Wall Street Connection (1992 to 2016)”
David Harvey – The Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism
David Harvey – Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism (Profile Books, 2014)
Admittedly, I did not read all of this book. I did read enough to have my fill though. David Harvey has achieved that status of academic respect that allows him to release books in which he pontificates about his opinions without regard for much other scholarship, and people nonetheless print those books and read them. He adopts an air of aristocratic self-importance such that he can discuss other scholars and simply say he does like them. Support? Research? Logical critique? None of those. Just the wave of his withered, regal hand — he doesn’t like those other theories. That is the problem with Harvey. He’s dispensing his own theories by monologue, not testing them. The premise of this book is to be an accessible, high level discussion of the inherent contradictions of capital (not capitalism). Time and again, Harvey reveals his rigid, old-fogey commitment to old theory and his readiness to dismiss all ideas outside his conceptions of orthodox marxism and class reductionism. Where he’s best is in detailed discussions of the particulars of contemporary urban real estate and associated geography. But while he has updated the descriptions to fit the modern context, his illustrations add nothing to what has been written a century ago (Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America). Pass.